{"id":40090,"date":"2018-03-25T21:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T01:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40090"},"modified":"2018-03-25T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T01:58:15","slug":"podcast-220-thomas-reid-on-first-principles-and-common-sense-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-220-thomas-reid-on-first-principles-and-common-sense-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 220 \u2013 Thomas Reid on First Principles and Common Sense \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1660\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40090-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities220.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities220.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities220.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities220.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=40090-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities220.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities220.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Reid#\/media\/File:Cameo_of_Thomas_Reid_by_James_Tassie,_Hunterian_Museum,_Glasgow.jpghttp:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40091\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cameo_of_Thomas_Reid_by_James_Tassie_Hunterian_Museum_Glasgow-376x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cameo_of_Thomas_Reid_by_James_Tassie_Hunterian_Museum_Glasgow-376x450.jpg 376w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cameo_of_Thomas_Reid_by_James_Tassie_Hunterian_Museum_Glasgow-768x919.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cameo_of_Thomas_Reid_by_James_Tassie_Hunterian_Museum_Glasgow-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cameo_of_Thomas_Reid_by_James_Tassie_Hunterian_Museum_Glasgow.jpg 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a>In this episode, 18th c. Christian philosopher Thomas Reid gives <strong>examples of what he calls &#8220;first principles,&#8221;<\/strong> truths which adult humans ordinarily know without having reasoned their way to them, and even without being able to argue for or to defend them. They are part, in Reid&#8217;s view, of our God-given &#8220;common sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many if not all of these self-evident truths which he things any of us ought to know, come from Reid&#8217;s <strong>reflection on the work of other philosophers<\/strong>, such as David Hume, George Berkeley, Benedict Spinoza, W.G. Leibniz, and others. In his view, in different ways these philosophers ignore common sense, <strong>speculating too much<\/strong>, and fighting against that base of natural human knowledge that they should instead be building upon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do <em>you<\/em> know all the truths Reid lists?<\/strong> (Note that if you don&#8217;t <em>believe<\/em> a thing, you thereby do not <em>know<\/em> it.) And, do you agree that these are things which all normal human adults <em>should<\/em> know?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earlymoderntexts.com\/authors\/reid\">Reid\u2019s books with language slightly updated by Dr. Jonathan Bennett<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thomas Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/reid\/\">@SEP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Reid\">@Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This week\u2019s thinking music is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/files\/Fireproof_Babies\/11805\">Lilly\u2026.So Far Away<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/people\/Fireproof_Babies\">Fireproof Babies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should everyone know these truths?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,16,9,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-books","category-philosophy","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40097,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090\/revisions\/40097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}